Yes.  That's a lot like what I had in mind.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would incremental dumps, as described by brion long time ago
> (http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/14/incremental-dumps/) be what you're
> looking for?
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If periodic update dumps are being considered, information that describes
> > changes to old data (page deletes, user renames, etc) would be very
> useful
> > to have along with new revisions.
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> > On Mar 31, 2011 6:27 PM, "Luca de Alfaro" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I think I would be very interested in 3, or even, in having every month
> a
> >> dump of that month's revisions. As I have built tools for the xml dumps,
> >> no
> >> change in format is good for me (and for WikiTrust).
> >>
> >> I would find incremental dumps (with occasional, yearly, full dumps)
> much
> >> easier to manage than full dumps.
> >>
> >> Luca
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, I'm a student planning on doing GSoC this year on mediawiki.
> >>> Specifically, I'd like to work on data dumps.
> >>>
> >>> I'm writing this to gauge what would be useful to the research
> >>> community. Several ideas thrown about include:
> >>> 1. JSON Dumps
> >>> 2. Sqlite Dumps
> >>> 3. Daily dumps of revisions in last 24 hours
> >>> 4. Dumps optimized for very fast import into various external storage
> >>> and smaller size (diffs)
> >>> 5. JSON/CSV for Special:Import and Special:Export
> >>>
> >>> Would any of these be useful? Or is there anything else that I'm
> >>> missing, that you would consider much more useful?
> >>>
> >>> Feedback would be invaluable :)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks :)
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